Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-07
Thursday, April ?, 1887.
rALMAGE,s GREAT AUDIENCES.

New Haven Lady Writes Concern
 ing the Preacher and HIS Coming
 Easter Service.
 A former New Haven lady now residing in Brooklyn writes: Several times during the year Rev. Dr. Talmage of the Brooklyn Tabernacle has two weeks off. Having re- turned from one of these vacations he occu- pied his pulpit last Sunday, the Sd inst, and was greeted by an overfiowiDg house, which means some six thousand persons. The platform aud it's surroundings were most elaborately decorated with flowers for the occasion and the doctor preached fine dis course which was as sarcastic as true in every particular, an abstract of which is as follows:
 Its just nineteen years this month said he in clear voice. ''snce came to Brooklyn to be pas tor. The church has gone through all it's trouble and is now a temple of prosperity.
 church First it meets all it's engagements; people find that prayer alone won't buy coal nor pay rent Prayer never reaches heaven high unless It goes s discord in her church said: There's no d!scord; the of life is free but we have to pay for the | "It's a bad thing in any community when mer- chant says, the church owes me for this or that live church. is always punctual one. It is an ab- soue necessity for the congregation to be punct- al. Some people seem to have been born too late and some will die too late. 1 know man who was always behind. He missed the train on his we'd ding day" Laughter continued: "A live church goes by railroad time George Washington's secretary apologized for be- We'll said the general, you'll either have to get anot CT watch or shall get another secretary
 Another characteristic of 8 live church IS Its music. It's an awful thing to have little music floating down from the organ loft and freezing up Ut eney ae finally losing itself the arches. The Methodist church has sung f,, its man for organist and another for precenter and now people come, I'm told, thousand miles to
 sAEother Characteristic" continued the preach er 'of live church is the Sunday school. In one half of the Sunday schools in the United States they teach too long No child can be quiet longer than an hour and quarter at a time, unless in an objection to them.they are % too respectable. What in New York and Brooklyn?
 "Its becoming great question whether we'll foe 0r 5e we on1H eond bear those young voices in blasphemy in places that have already become sewer Of a6omlnatlon, mi We'd ways he children-they'n be men and women by
 Iliat pretty thief will slip in and pick the lock of your money safe and blow up your store to cover his tracks They are growing up @ to hurfah at eec men; moral corpses that ous ht to be buried one hundred feet deep; men that will say the world owes them living. when it really owes them pen
 Ns'oh, what power has sin, drowning like surge., Leave them to themselves? Then it would not be q question of what we'll do with them, but what they do with us. It's like the tramp who when asked by the farmer why he didn't work in sum mer said My trade is peculiar one ana meyer meyer work in summer What is your trade: asked tha farmer. Shoveng snow,' he replied" uaugh-
 Thoroughly enthused with his subject Dr. Tal- mage continued Another characteristic of a live church is it's architecture. log meeting house serves it's purpose in its proper place, but in the was born in a manager is no reason that we should worship him in barn Many people P it cried Ri, out drome! It's holy circus It's Talmage's thea like it.
 No more angular churches; God likes circles. live church will also be soul-saving church Have you powers of pathos?-expend them in telling a Savour's love. Make your plough, your counter, your anvil, pulpit. believe this is soul-saving church. A conductor told me out West of an ex- press laundering down on his train lying on side switch. By the flashing headlight he saw the switch was open. In minute the crash would have hurled half thousand into eternity. He shouted. Set that switcht The brakeman had about a second to do It, and the trains were saved. Oh, how weak I fet!' said the conductor, at that moment!
 70 man, woman, speeding swiftly on in years, on what track are you running? Set that switch. Now is the day of salvation" /"
 Great preparations are being made by the members of the Tabernacle for Easter Sun day, when the floral and other decorations will be most elaborate and costly, probably far exceeding anything of the kind ever be- fore attempted in this mammoth church, and it is expected that Dr. Tallnage will preach one of his most characteristic sermons on that day. The additions to membership dur ing the great revival just ended in this church have been over 1000, and now that Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has passed away, the demand to hear Dr. Talmage will be so great that as it is already intimated, larg CT ediice will have to be built to hold his large audiences.